¶But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of
defaming the Way before the multitude, he departed from them,[a]
and separated focused instead on[b]the
disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

But some of the itinerant Jewish,
exorcists, took on themselves tried to invoke
name the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits
the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul
preaches proclaims.”[a]

Many A considerable (number) of those who practiced
magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of
all. They counted the price of them, and found it to be fifty
thousand pieces of silver.

You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all
Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people
a sizable crowd, saying that they are no gods, that are made with
hands.

Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also
that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing,
and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships
deifies.”

They they surmised[a] from the crowd brought(that they were there because of) Alexander out of the
multitude, when the Jews putting him forward.
Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the
people.

¶When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You
men of Ephesus, Men, Ephesians, what man is there who
doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great
goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?